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    The Revisions Document for Siren. Anyone’s free to post their ideas or revisions here.

    Survivors & Breathless - A Return to the Distinctions


    Between the Two
    -metablender (Will)

    Having watched the revisions of the collected Siren documents for some time, there was a
    change some months ago I found curious. Having finished an extensive read of the Celestial
    Ocean chapter and the ‘Survivor’ minor template in Chapter 2, I wanted to address this issue to
    suggest we return to the prior set of terminology.

    At some point, the Breathless were renamed to be Survivors.

    When really the two are nothing alike as presented.

    The most common denizens of the Celestial Ocean are the Survivors, those that represent lives
    after the turning point of the Deluge. They may have survived the defining cataclysm, they may
    have sprung up around a Ruin or under the sway of a Despot. They have a past version of
    themselves (or some ancestor thereof) in reality. They have Drowned without the means to
    have a Surfacing, having no connection to the Song itself (and no Akhasic Record).

    The Breathless, as they were called, we're humans who have Drowned but not Surfaced, their
    Souls permanently wounded in such a way that this draws affection from others. As their
    namesake suggests they do not need to breathe. Their despair draws sympathy, they are
    slippery within the Song (if targeted by a Verse, they can use Willpower to redirect it to another
    target). A Siren can have an easier time drawing Pneuma using a Breathless as a Conduit,
    targeting multiple people as once. This moniker, Breathless, sounds fitting for people who have
    drowned from the same set of circumstances that would make a Siren but instead becoming
    nigh-soulless beings.

    Perhaps it was the notion that both Breathless and Survivors experiencing a ‘Drowning’ that led
    to the former being renamed as the latter. But these are distinct templates. Indeed, the Survivor
    article in the Celestial Ocean chapter amounts to the Survivors in the ante-Diluvian world being
    nothing like Breathless in the pre-Diluvian one (or the ‘Survivors’ in pre-Diluvian world).

    This is something of a ‘square and a rectangle’ sort of terminology. A Breathless has some
    similarities to a Survivor, but a Survior as presented in Chapter 5 is nothing like a Breathless. If
    a Breathless Drowned and disappeared completely into the Celestial Ocean they would be a
    Survivor.
    Chapter 5 states that if a Survivor is taken out of the Celestial Ocean they are treated as a
    human, not a Breathless. The Dirty Deeds sidebar states that in the case of direct past and
    future selves in the case of human meeting their future Surivor, both would cease to exist.
    Would a Breathless even have a post-Deluge equivalent of themselves if they crossed into the
    Celestial Ocean in their drowning moment?

    Another mechanic introduced in Chapter 5, a human being Moved by the Song, sounds more
    like another means of Breathless creation. Breathless have experienced the Song but were
    overwhelmed by it instead of being transformed into Sirens (‘Drowning’ without ‘Surfacing’
    unless a separate set of terms are needed in this instance or Drowning and Surfacing need to
    be clarified). Should a Moved person remain in the Celestial Ocean they would be a Survivor.

    Resolutions:
    1) Survivors and Breathless are made separate and more distinct, with Breathless
    characters returning to the original definition. Ideas for distinctions: Survivors may
    possess an Alteration or two, like Therons; while Breathless have their soul-wounded
    traits further emphasized, like as having the Open Conditon towards ghost, spirits, furies
    and such ephemeral entities.
    2) Survivors and Breathless are fully integrated, although this would be challenging.
    Connections would need to be made between pre-and-ante Diluvian characteristics,
    their method of forming, and what exactly it means to Drown and Surface if the character
    is not a Siren.

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